Attachment for spooler guide rods



May 1 3, 1930. I T. HOUGHTON, 1,758,604

ATTACHMENT FOR SPOOLER GUIDE RODS Filed April 2'7, 1928 Patented May 13, 1930 LEWIS T. HOUGHT'ON,

OLIVE IVL LAMBERT, EXECUTORS OF SAID LEWISTgI-IOUGI-ITON, DECEASEDQASSIGN- OBS TO JOHN M. HOUG-HTON AND OLIVE M. LA1VBERT,. 'BGTH OFIWOROESTER, vIll/IIASS.Z-L-

CI-IUSETTS Application filed April '27,

V This'invention relates to the guide rods employed in spoolers over which the yarn passes. v

The principal object of the invention is to provide a very simple and convenient means for providing a smooth surface over which the yarn passes after the original surface has been cut or scored bythe yarn.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which 1 Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing an ordinary spooler guide rod and indicating the scoring and roughening it gets in wear due to the yarn passing over it;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the application of my invention thereto; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the attachment which constitutes this invention.

As is well known, spoolers are provided with a guide rod 10, over which the yarn passes from below in a horizontal direction.

These rods are made of ordinary stock, and

after the yarn has passed over it in one place after a time it will become scored. Such grooves 11 in it are indicated in Fig. 1. The ordinary way of restoring the rod to proper condition for use is to turn it about its axis. This requires theloosening of the clamps 12 which hold the guides 13 in position, and the readjustment of the guides through which the yarn passes from it. Furthermore, this has to be done when any oneof the guiding surfaces of the long rod becomes, badly worn, although the others may not have been worn to the same extent.

In order to overcome these difiiculties in a very simple way, I provide a semi-cylindrical steel clip 15 whichis made of sheet steel stock and highly finished and polished on its convex surface, and which extends around slightly more than a semi-circle, so that it can be pressed on from above into the position shown in Fig. 2 and will remain there by the action of the natural resiliency of the clip itself. No further fastening means has to be employed, and no appreciable amount of time has to be taken up in applying it. The clamps 12 do not have to be loosened, and

ATTACHMENT FOR SEOOLEB, lG UlDE RODS 1928. "Serial No.273,400;

constitutes a better surface than that of the original rod. Also, on account of the material of which it is made, it will wear longer than the original rod in one place.

It is very inexpensive to manufacture and does not add materially to the cost of the equipment, but the principal saving may be said to be in the time required, to turn an ordinary rod and readjust the associated parts. This also increases the life of the original rod, because it can be turned in the usual way several times, and these clips applied only after the rod is really used up. It constitutes a very inexpensive means for practically replacing the original rod.

Furthermore, on account of the slowness of the wear on this steel clip, the product is less likely to be damaged by the grooves worn in it, or at least the time during which the surface is perfectly smooth is very mate rially increased.

Although I have illustrated and described only a single form of the invention, I am aware of the fact that modifications can be made therein by any person skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention as expressed in the claims. There- STATES PAINT? o. r;Fi-c a:1 I

or WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS; JOHN M. HOUG1-ITON,AI\T.D

fore, I do not wish to be limited to the exact form shown, but what I do claim is 2- 1. As an article of manufacture, a clip-for T application to a spooler guide rod, consisting of a short length of sheet steel formed in a convex shape on the outside and of the same size as the rod inside, and of a width slightly more than half the circumference of thecylinder and adapted to be clipped on the rod and held thereon by its own resiliency.

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' 2. As an article of manufacture, a clip for the purpose described, consisting of'a piece of sheet steel of a length sufficient to receive the yarn passing to a single guide on the pooler, and of a concave shape inside, adapted to clip over the .spooler guiderod to holdit thereon by its own resiliency, and having a smoothly finished convey; surface for receiving the yarn. '3. As an article of manufacture, a clip for application to a spooler guide rod, consisting of a length of sheet steel of the same" size as the rod inside and more than semi- .cylindrical in cross section, and adapted to be pressed'on the rod and to he held thereon by its ovvn'resiliency, and to he turned thereon, withoutremoving it to present a fresh wearing surface. V v

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature. l i LEWIS T. HOUGHTON. 

